AuthorTopic: Linux does not login the first time! (Read 6735 times)

I have a root login and one user login on my machine. These days I've discovered strange pattern when I login from non root account.

When system is restarted, and I try to login into non root account, the system does not login for the first attempt. The screen just flickers just like the way it flickers for a successful login; and instead of the desktop, I get back the login screen again. However it is successfully logging in for subsequent tries.

A wrong UID/ PWD is giving an error 'login failed'; but this does not give any such error messages. Is the system security being compromised? (May sound silly, but I doubt!)

I'm not a linux guru, but it might be a good idea to simply remove the user who has these problems. Afterwards you can create a new one using VASM or VASMCC. It think this should rule out any wrong setting you had previously..

Don't know if your users home dir will be removed to. Best way is to keep a backup of that folder somewhere, just to be sure.

I have exactly the same problem. But even weirder in the sense that it comes and goes. This started happening after close to 2 months of daily usage. And indeed only on the user account(s) and never on the root account.

That happens to me only when I select "Default" in the Session manager. I always thought that kdm expects kde as default wm and since I dont have it, it just gives the chance to pick another one. I dunno if that assumption is correct. Never happens when selecting an installed wm.

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I am having the same problem, only worse. After I install VL-Lite or VL-Mini as my only OS on the hd, I get precisely this behavior, but it happens to me every single time. Consequently, I have never been able to login to the desktop. In contrast, VL-Soho installs perfectly with no problems. However, my system is too old to run it quickly enough to be usable, so I would like to use VL-Lite or VL-Mini, but as described, I can never login, either as root or as the user I setup during installation.

Moreover, the "Start JWM" and "Start Fluxbox" buttons on the login screen do not seem to be functional. When I click on either of them, their dialog window disappears, then re-appears after about thirty seconds. The "Shutdown" and "Reboot" buttons on the same dialog work as expected.

I suppose this post will have to serve as an additional confirmation of the problem for the developers, but if anyone has any suggestions for resolving the issue, I would be grateful. Vector Linux Soho is the only distribution I have been able to get to work correctly on this old laptop, so I am eager to see the lighter versions provide some new life for it.